Re: Frank Carmickle and Marco Paganini must die
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:53:28 -0700, Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> said:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 10:46:42PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Stop trying to change Debian from what it has always been and what
>> has been its strength: A no-nonsense OS from people who collaborate
>> on it as a labour of love, because tey need it, because they have
>> an itch to scratch that no one else care to.
> I'm only trying to change people's attitudes, not the end product.
Heh. I like the end product, so let us change the organization
and the culture that produces it.
> The product is one of the few things that's right about Debian (even
> if it's a few years out of date).
> The idea that everyone should listen to you because you happened to
> type eximconfig on your dialup box, despite the neverending tide of
> spam that comes from dialups and other dynamic ip's, strikes me as
> both arrogant and impractical.
I guess this is the level of drivel I should expect of
you. No, the reason people should listen to me is not the MTA my
mail originates at, but the contents of my emails. If people do not
like the content, they can chose to filter it out.
If they are moronic enough to filter out perfectly fine
content they actually wanted to read, it is their problem. You may
find it acceptable to axe perfectly innocent email because "ooh! ooh!
mommy look! they have a dial up account!!!", but then if you have
false positives, all you have to blame is your idiotic filtering
policy.
Filter on whether the mail is spam, or not. I see a couple
of spams a week, and it has been a month or so since my filter had a
false positive. Filtering on nationality, or whether the originating
MTA is on a dialup or not, has no relation to the value of the
content of the message. Stop trying to impose corrections for this
idiotic policy on the rest of the internet -- _that_ is what is both
arrogant and impractical.
manoj
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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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